Index 1
SPACE COLONIZATION GOOD 2
Space Colonization Good- Laundry List 2
Space Colonization Good- Extinction 3
Space Colonization Good- Asteroids 5
Space Colonization Good- AIDs 7
Space Colonization Good- Econ 8
Space Colonization Good- Environment 9
Space Colonization Good- Scarcity 10
Space Colonization Good- War 11
Space Colonization Good- Warming 12
Space Colonization Good- Survive Nuclear War 13
Space Colonization Good- Now Key 14
AT: Space Colonization Impossible 15
AT: Space Colonization Impossible- Microgravity 16
AT: Space Colonization Impossible- Mars 17
AT: Space Colonization Impossible- Takes Too Long 18
AT: Space Colonization Bad- Launches Hurt Environment 19
AT: Space Colonization Bad- Aliens 20
AT: Space Colonization Bad- Diseases 21
AT: Space Colonization Bad- Imperialism 23
AT: Space Colonization Bad- Space Debris 24
SPACE COLONIZATION BAD 25
Space Colonization Doesn’t Solve- General 25
Ext. Takes Too Long 28
Ext. Take Too Much Energy 29
Ext. Inhospitable Atmosphere 30
Ext. Can’t Reproduce 31
Ext. Microgravity 32
Mars Colonization Fails 33
Space Colonization Bad- Black Holes 34
Space Colonization Bad-Laundry List 35
Space Colonization Bad-Asteroid Terrorism 36
Space Colonization Bad-Diseases 37
Ext. Causes Disease 38
Space Colonization Bad- Space Debris 39
Space Colonization Bad- Disposable Earth 40
AT: Space Colonization Good- AIDs 41
AT: Space Colonization Good- Asteroids 43
AT: Space Colonization Good- Environment 44
AT: Colonization Good- Resources 46
AT: Space Colonization Good- War 47
MISC 48
Nuclear War Turns Space Colonization 48
Space Colonization Inevitable 49
AT: Space Colonization Inevitable 50
Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Spacehab, Mir and now ISS are humankind’s first ventures toward colonization. Efforts are underway to provide short space tours, and endeavors such as the X-Prize are encouraging entrepreneurs to provide new systems. Many believe that extended space travel (colonization) will do for the 21st century what aviation did for the 20th. Our current concerns including terrorism, hunger, disease, and problems of air quality, safe abundant water, poverty, andweather vagaries tend to overshadow long-term activities such as Space Colonization in the minds of many. Our leading “think tanks” such as the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Brookings Institute do not rate space travel high on lists of future beneficial undertakings even though many of the concerns listed above are prominently featured. It is the contention of this paper that Space Colonization will lead toward solutions to many of the emerging problems of our Earth, both technological and sociological. The breadth of the enterprise far exceeds the scope of our normal single-purpose missions and, therefore, its benefits will be greater.